Mind Quotes

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.
Toledo Blade
Marty bucella - when it comes to staying young, a mind lift beats...
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
Liberals are very broadminded they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Anonymous
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Robert Oxton Bolt
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.
Quintilian
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
Alfred Victor Vigny
Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
Wilberforce
God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty.
William Shakespeare
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Oscar Wilde
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.
Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Anthony Robbins
Reading musses up my mind.
Henry Ford
Francis william bourdillon - the night has a thousand eyes, and the day but...
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
Karl von Bonstetten
A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.
Unknown
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.
Alexander Hamilton
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
William Fullbright
The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.
Maitri Upanishads
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
Juvenal, Satires
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
Ernest Hemingway
Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.
Charles R. Swindoll
You can do anything that you wanna do. All you gotta do is to put your brain into it. Take your time and educate your mind.
Coolio, The Winne
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
William Shakespeare
The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind - - But one cannot eternally live in a cradle.
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
A storm broke loose in my mind.
Albert Einstein
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.
Sylvia Ashton - Warner, Spinste
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
Better and ugly face than an ugly mind.
James
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.
Elayne Boosle
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
The Talmud
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.
Benjamin Disraeli